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Sadistic Desire · X Japan

EXERCISE 2 OF 80
Groove F -- Part F
59 / 272 BARS COVERED
0 / 80 PASSED · 41 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F, PART S, PART H
PART F
PART F
PART S
CHORUS
PART H
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART AF
PART F
PART S
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
11 groovesXFSAZAF+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 22
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 2
JOIN · 14
LINK · 8
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sadistic Desire on drums

272 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 5:44 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
272
LENGTH
5:44
DIFFICULTY
68/100

toms through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-26, ride through bars 27-28, hi-hat through bars 29-35, toms through bars 36-37 and hi-hat through bars 38-43, and 20 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 59-65, 70-75 and 77-83, and 7 more places -- 21.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    70
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |--x-----x-x---x-|
Sadistic Desire -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 1, 2, 50, 98, 141, 142 and 24 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 67 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- X -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and Part H -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and Part F -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Through Part F -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  7. Bars 35-231 -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 37-233 -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 14 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Sadistic Desire?

190 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Sadistic Desire hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

272 bars, about 5:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 67 exercises over 22 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Sadistic Desire?

12 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 1, 2, 50, 98, 141, 142 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 272 BARS ANALYSED